Moneylife:
Pune: Friday, 10 October 2014.
The
Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra transferred 150 police officers in 2014.
Out of this 147 were transferred by the chief minister and home minister using
powers that were meant to be used under exceptional circumstances
The
Maharashtra government led by Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)
transferred 147 transferred officer above the rank of Deputy Superintendent of
Police using power that were meant to be used under exceptional circumstances.
According to
a reply received by Right to Information (RTI) activist and former central
information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi, during 2014, the state government
transferred 150 police officers, out of which 147 were transferred as
exception.
The
Maharashtra Transfers and Delays Act 21 of 2006 mandates a tenure of three
years for all government officers. However, the Congress-NCP government issued
an amendment to the Maharashtra Police Act through an ordinance. By section 22
N, the ordinance specified a tenure of two years for police officers and gave
powers to chief minister and home minister to violate this norm under
exceptional circumstances.
Mr Gandhi
said, "They (the Congress-NCP government) must have been in political
slumber and naive not to realise they were going to present more power to their
political opponents. Money in the transfer business must have been fairly
lucrative. The government did not follow any of the laws. A lawless
government!"
In his RTI
application, the former central information commissioner had asked description
of following...
1)
I
want information regarding total number of transfers of various ranks of police
officers from PSI upwards.
2)
I
want information regarding total number of transfers of various ranks of police
officers from PSI upwards who have been transferred under Section 22 N (2) (a)
and Section 22 N (2) (b).
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